For looking at the presentation, I recommend the Open Office version so you can see the animations. Press F5 to start the presentation, then keep pressing space. I should also mention that, during the conclusion, where the slides point to Rails or Django, it’s not an exclusive recommendation, so much as a recommendation to investigate Rails or Django first. Read the paper and use your brain.

The talk itself went over well. Quite a few people mentioned that seeing Rails and Django code side by side was helpful. Here are somephotosfrom Andy, Keith, Wen Lin and Karen Askins. I quite like this one of Ben, but this one of me is just inexplicable. We made everyone standup during the audience participation section.

Thanks again to everyone who sent us feedback, and a big thanks to Ben for making it possible.

I really enjoyed those slides - great use of diagrams, and it looks like the presentation flow was really tightly planned. How long did it take you guys to put together the presentation itself (slides + planning)?

Great presentation. I especially appreciated, in the number-of-advertised-jobs chart, how you included general Python and Ruby job ads. Previous comparisons have compared only Rails vs. Django job ads, which is misleading.

Nice effort! As you say: it would need more rigorous trials to get a more or less scientific comparison. But even so: some of the strong points of both solutions come out clearly. I would love to see someone do a similar test on Rails vs. Django vs. Grails...